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Dislike and Disdain Trump expresses his true feelings about America and Americans

Dislike and Disdain
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Albanese’s folly of pandering to Donald Trump ANALYSIS: The prime minister’s flattery of Donald Trump may be about preserving US relations, but he ought to focus on leaders who will really shape Australia’s future.

Hugh White cutting through the bullshit the rest of the Australian media is spinning on the meeting between Albanese and Trump

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/10/25/albaneses-folly-pandering-donald-trump?utm_source=bsky via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

‘Prime minister’s choice’: Sussan Ley walks back call for Kevin Rudd to be sacked as US ambassador Liberal minister Jane Hume earlier described calls for the former prime minister to be removed as ambassador as a ‘little bit churlish’

Is there anything more tragic than watching Sussan Ley implode over this issue? She's the lightest of lightweights and a terrible communicator to boot
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Trump’s Most Reviled Voting Company Sold to a GOP Official. That’s Not the Worst of It. Earlier this month, news broke that Dominion Voting Solutions had been sold to a former Republican election official.

'Democracy' in America becoming a sick joke
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Couldn't agree more. After a slow start he's been growing in the role but that was a shocker

Marr's was a travesty. One of the ugliest interviews I've heard him do.

All the way with Donald J. Albo supporting mass murder - Michael West Australia is murdering people and threatening democracy. That’s the reality of Anthony Albanese kissing Donald Trump’s ring this week.

Michael Pascoe stating an obvious truth our compliant media and political parties refuse to acknowledge. We need an equivalent of 'No Kings' rallies to push back against this idiocy.
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I would have thought that what Barnaby Joyce was doing with Pauline Hanson is far less consequential to what Richard Marles is doing with Pete Hegseth. One of them is betraying Australian values and it aint Barnaby.

Reminder that Sirhan Sirhan is still alive, still in prison, and you could offer a swap of a pardon for one last job.

Opinion | ‘What Can Burn Will Burn’

Fascinating article on Zombie fires. Something I was completely unaware of.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

What Trump said and did not say at the Knesset The US president had a lot to say about everything, except the genocide.

Brilliant from Belen Fernandez at Al Jazeera. An antidote to the ridiculous triumphalism of the western press.
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Van Jones and the moral vacancy of American commentary on Gaza US pundit’s 'dead Gaza baby' joke exposes the moral vacancy that defines US media on Palestine.

'The world’s horror at Gaza’s devastation....is the natural response of any conscience not yet cauterised. To those possessed of moral fortitude, the images need no narration; they speak a universal language of grief'
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What Trump said and did not say at the Knesset The US president had a lot to say about everything, except the genocide.

Brilliant from Belen Fernandez at Al Jazeera. An antidote to the ridiculous triumphalism of the western press.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

An entire history across Palestine of Israeli impunity and dominion, one of repetitive ethnic cleansing, military rule, expansion of settlements – and now explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination – is erased, again'
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'And so now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires, a wretched population who, we are to believe, have been brought low by Hamas, and must be fed and watered while the world works out what to do with them.

Opinion | Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won

The reasons why Democrats need a Mamdani at the Federal level if they are to have any hope of defeating Trump and MAGA
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MAGA Tested, Trump Approved News A conservative opinion writer is now leading CBS News

An antidote to the bs Parnell McGuiness is posting today in the SMH
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Quote: Their outcomes, along with the Court’s actions in the last few years, carry the seeds of American tragedy. Roberts, often described as an institutionalist, has enabled the most hostile anti-institutionalist ever elected president. The leader of the nation’s judicial system has empowered the president who is the most disdainful in history of the decrees of judges, the provisos of the Constitution, and the workings of American democracy. The chief justice, attempting to thread the needle between principle and practicality, has opened the door to the possibility of the ultimate constitutional crisis: a president’s outright defiance of the Supreme Court.

Truly excellent new piece by Lincoln Caplan in @harvardmagazine.bsky.social on John Roberts, seen in full.

Careful, meticulous, devastating case on how "institutionalist" has enabled destruction of crucial institutions. Including his now discredited court.
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Has Trump Brought Peace to Gaza? Has Trump brought peace to Gaza? Ended the war and cycle of...

Great summation as to why Trump is the only person who could have achieved this.

The reasons aren't in any way pure. More the nexus of corruption and power that aligns him with the relevant players.

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This is such a brilliant article.

On Luxon Advising Young People To Get Out While They Still Can If anyone under 35 still had mixed feelings about leaving New Zealand to build a future elsewhere, PM Christopher Luxon probably sealed the deal this week with his comments about the youth job market.

Read and weep.
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The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias If you came into Tuesday’s oral argument over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban...

The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

These elites of Australian journalism do their industry no favours. Then again, most of our political class have forgotten what it is to be, not just accountable, but transparent and professional too.

The National Press Club shoots the messenger The Club shows itself to be just another weak symbol of timidity, a gatekeeper of acceptable speech rather than a defender of free expression.

Another icon bending the knee open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

Could the National Press Club be less embarrassing and less complicit in the genocide of Palestine/the West's decline into overt fascism, pretty, pretty, pretty please? 🙏 Cancelling Chris Hedges' talk on the betrayal of Palestinian journalists only proves his point. Truly, truly pathetic

Trump says his Gaza peace deal is 'an amazing thing'. More and more nations disagree On Wednesday, Donald Trump proclaimed his Middle East peace deal an "amazing thing". By week's end, things were not as straightforward as they seemed.

Outstanding analysis from Laura Tingle
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Grand Theft Accounting I am shocked—shocked, I tell you—to discover in this year’s corporate tax report that Optus paid no tax on $8.2 billion of income.

Gotta love the wordsmith that is John Birmingham. This will bring a smile to your face and a rage to your brain.
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Grand Theft Accounting I am shocked—shocked, I tell you—to discover in this year’s corporate tax report that Optus paid no tax on $8.2 billion of income.

Gotta love the wordsmith that is John Birmingham. This will bring a smile to your face and a rage to your rational brain.
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Insanity. This is Frum's 'Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way'. How to demolish your reputation in a single column.